Eomunidopsis

Eomunidopsis

G. Scott · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GalatheidaePBDB
Diet
detritivorePBDB, for Galatheidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 145.06 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 26 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 26 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 26 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–130 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences130–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences119–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–103 Mya — about 4 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 4 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences84–81 Mya — about 2 occurrences81–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143.1 Mya72.2 Mya147 Mya64 Mya

26 occurrences of Eomunidopsis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

26 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Pierre Shale — 40.92°N, 105.05°WPierre Shale — 40.77°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.72°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.03°WPierre Shale — 40.52°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.17°WEguino — 42.88°N, 2.20°WZapotitlán — 18.42°N, 97.46°WPawpaw — 32.00°N, 97.00°WMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EPurbeck Limestone — 50.55°N, 2.43°WNigorikawa — 44.60°N, 142.05°EArida — 34.04°N, 135.17°E

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The named rock units Eomunidopsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Eomunidopsis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Eomunidopsis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Eomunidopsis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 26 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Eomunidopsis

Source
GBIF
Credit
G. Scott
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eomunidopsis was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGalatheidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Via Boada 1981